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Simpsonwave

Simpsonwave noun: a genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.

Noun

Simpsonwave (uncountable)

  1. A genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.
    • Vaporwave and its more developed form, Simpsonwave, are of course concerned with an entirely different set of tropes–but they are no less hauntological for it. Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.2019, Tom Whyman, “Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now?”, in Alfie Bown, Dan Bristow, editors, Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, punctum books, →ISBN, page 212

Origin of Simpsonwave

From Simpson + -wave.

Questions about Simpsonwave

What does Simpsonwave mean?
Simpsonwave means a genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.
What part of speech is Simpsonwave?
Simpsonwave is a noun.

Words near Simpsonwave in the dictionary

  1. simpsonite
  2. Simpsons
  3. Simpsons Bay
  4. Simpsons Creek
  5. Simpsonville
  6. Simpsonwave
  7. simptomatology
  8. simpy
  9. simran
  10. sims
  11. Sims position

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